GOVERNMENT OF MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3476 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16TH MARCH, 2018

SHORTAGE OF VACCINE

3476. SHRI SHYAMA CHARAN GUPTA:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is aware of the acute shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) in Government and private hospitals;

(b) if so, the details thereof, State/UTwise including Kerala;

(c) whether due to shortage of the said vaccine several children are likely to be deprived of the immunity against Type 2 polio virus; and

(d) if so, the details thereof? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. )

(a) & (b): There is no shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) in National Immunization Program. Under the programme the vaccine is provided by Government of India to States/UTs and the vaccination is carried out by service delivery outlets consisting mainly of Government hospital, Block Primary Health Centres, Primary Health Centres, Sub Centres, outreach session sites in the villages etc. There is a global shortage of IPV. However, this reduced supply to government at present has not resulted in shortage of IPV to the State/UTs.

As per provisional reports received from States/UTs, in current financial year from Apr- Dec, 2017 a total of 602.44 lakh doses of IPV have been supplied to the States/UTs which is more than total children vaccinated in the same period i.e. 210.96 lakh. This indicates that there is no shortage of IPV. The State/UT-wise details are annexed.

(c) &(d): In view of the above, the question of children remaining unimmunized against type 2 polio virus due to shortage of IPV does not arise.

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State/UT wise status of IPV Supplied and reported coverage for Apr-Dec, 2017

IPV Doses administered IPV doses Supplied S. NO. State/UT to children (in lakh doses) (in lakh doses) 1 A & N Islands 0.0250 0.011 2 Andhra Pradesh 21.00 8.803 3 Arunachal Pradesh 0.18 0.148 4 Assam 21.65 3.290 5 Bihar 67.00 26.986 6 Chandigarh 0.22 0.185 7 Chhattisgarh 16.50 2.885 8 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 0.14 0.090 9 Daman & Diu 0.10 0.043 10 7.50 3.687 11 Goa 0.70 0.266 12 Gujarat 48.50 13.853 13 Haryana 10.00 3.426 14 Himachal Pradesh 2.58 2.219 15 Jammu & Kashmir 5.05 2.721 16 Jharkhand 14.50 2.610 17 Karnataka 19.25 5.260 18 Kerala 7.50 6.155 19 Lakshadweep 0.03 0.012 20 Madhya Pradesh 31.00 7.366 21 Maharashtra 34.00 10.260 22 Manipur 1.38 0.412 23 Meghalaya 0.96 0.401 24 Mizoram 0.40 0.197 25 Nagaland 0.28 0.093 26 Odisha 25.30 4.498 27 Puducherry 0.25 0.221 28 Punjab 9.50 4.915 29 Rajasthan 27.50 12.650 30 Sikkim 0.19 0.108 31 Tamil Nadu 20.00 10.056 32 Telangana 12.75 7.229 33 Tripura 1.50 0.515 34 132.50 51.214 35 Uttarakhand 6.50 1.893 36 West Bengal 56.00 16.282 India Total 602.44 210.96